Word: put
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...passage quoted above from President Conant's Class Report expressed his dislike of the distractions and interferences with normal University life, produced by war and by the emotional excitements associated with recruiting a volunteer army. If Mr. Gregg will put alongside of that statement President Conant's persistent efforts in the present emergency in behalf of a Selective Training Act under which the hullabaloo of drumming up recruits was to be replaced by an orderly selection of men for the tasks for which they are best fitted, small ground for a charge of inconsistency would-be found...
...student "shall obey his teacher. . . shall care for him, feed him, and put him to bed after washing his teacher's feet. The student shall avoid honey, meat, sleep in the daytime. . . shoes, love, anger, and the gaze and touch of women." His bed, according to Spartan Sorokin, must be a plank, and during his years in training he shall not see a woman, for "women make men soft...
...Navy Journal, a usually authoritative periodical, for Oct. 5, 1940: "General Marshall (Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army) said this week that during the last three or four months of the draftees' twelve months' training, the Army will select promising officer material from among the trainees and put them in special candidates' schools where they will be given specialized schooling as officers of the combat arms. Successful graduates of these school will be given commissions in the Officers' Reserve Corps...
...Stephenson: Let me put in my two cents' worth again. We called up the weather bureau on Friday night and were told that the forecast for Saturday was clear, so the field was left uncovered...
Also on the program is another Dr. Kildare picture which has no distinguishing features aside from a blast for socialized medicine that ought to put the entire membership of the A.M.A. in bed for a week. And finally there is Donald Duck and Pluto in a sequence on bathing which is by far the best thing on the program...